Tldr; I love my job, hate the Netherlands, want to move somewhere warmer but where and how?

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@Gina the problem with travelling by campervan is it's really hard to park in European cities. Fine if you just want to explore rural locations, but in many places you just can't park it.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@quixoticgeek I'm ok with that. I'm not really a city girl.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@Gina its also not legal to sleep in a vehicle overnight outside of designated locations in most European countries.

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@Gina feels like you need to start a spreadsheet with horizontally all the things you want and dont want and vertically the candidate countries. 😀

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@quixoticgeek @Gina we used to have reasonable success finding campsites near metro endpoints just outside major cities (disclaimer: long long time ago 🙂)

[dennmans@waag.social]

@Gina I did it the other way round: spent my early life as a nomad, partly living on boats, and then settled down in the Netherlands. I'm also outside the 'huisje, boompje, beestje' class, I can imagine your fatigue. I would give it a gentle try first - nomadic life is hard if you have creature comforts or like predictability. I tried living out of a small camper in South Africa for a few months. Whatever location you choose will be coloured by your experiences there, so try a few.

[crocmagnon@fosstodon.org]

@Gina what about travelling by bus? With companies like Flixbus it should be possible and would help you connect to smaller cities.

[brendanjones@fosstodon.org]

@Gina I grew up in Aus so I have the freedom of being able to move back there whenever I want, but I still haven't done it after 13 years in NL.

I cannot tell you how much I feel you on your criticisms of Dutch weather, and the lack of landscape and nature. I miss Australia terribly for this exact reason.

Doesn't help I spent a lot of time out bush through the years - I used to be an outdoors guide. It's been quite the change living here!